Ash and soot pan



(No Model.)

H. GOLMAN.

ASH AND SOOT PAN.

Patented July 16 ITED STATES ATENT 1 IIERRMANN OOLMAN, OF SAN FRANCISCO,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-I-IALF TO JULIUS COLMAN, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

A'SH AND sooT PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 542,797, dated July 16,1895. pp ca ed y 3, 1895. Serial No. 548,035. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

. Be it known that I, HERRMANN COLMAN, a citizen of Germany, residing inthe city and county of San Francisco,-State of California, have inventedan Improvement in Ash and Soot Pans; and I hereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a combined ash and soot pan to be used inconjunction with stoves and ranges.

It consists in certain details of construction, which will be more fullyexplained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1is a perspective view of the pan with its sliding door closed. Fig. 2 isa view showing the sliding door removed. Fig. 3 is a view showing theapplication of the pan to a stove or range.

In stoves or ranges there is an ash-pit below the grate, and it iscustomary to place a removable pan in this pit to receive the ashes asthey fall from the grate, so that they can be easily carried awaywhenever the pan is full. Behind this ash-pit and the grate is situatedthe oven, and in order to clear the passages around the oven from sootand other deposits a small door or openingis made in front in line withthe ash-pit, so that by means of a suitable scraper the soot and depositcan be drawn out into the ash-pit, from which they are afterward removedby a fire-shovel or other means. This necessitates the removal of theash-pan before access can be had to the space beneath the oven, and whenthe deposit has been removed from this space it still remains upon thefloor of the ash-pit and must be removed from that point before theash-pan can be again replaced. This makes a good deal of trouble andmore or less dirt about the stove. My invention is designed to avoidthis by so constructing the ash-pan with a removable rear gate that whenthe door is opened into the space beneath the oven, the ash-panremaining in place, the deposit can be withdrawn from the space beneaththe oven directly into the ash-pan, ready to be removed.

A is the ash-pan, having a bail or handle B, hinged thereto in anysuitable manner, so that it can be easily removed. The rear of bent soas to enter sockets, shown at E, and

suitably secured to the sides of the pan A. The plates in which thesesockets are formed are so arranged with reference to the rear edges ofthe pan as to form vertical grooves or channels, in which the edges ofthe gate are slidable.

The two wires D and D serve as a guide for the plate or door F, which isadapted to slide vertically between these wires and in the grooves orchannels, so that when pushed down it entirely closes the rear of thepan. When drawn up it leaves an open space 0, as previously described.

The rear end of the bottom of the pan A is continued out, as shown at A,and is slightly curved downward, so that the thin edge of metal thusformed rests closely against the bottom of the ash-pit when the pan isin place, and thus prevents the soot and deposit which are being rakedfrom beneath the oven into the pan from passing beneath it.

In order to protect the guiding-channels between which the door or plateF slides and prevent their being filled or clogged with ashes or dirtwhich falls from the grate, I have shown the upper part of this gate Fbent or folded transversely, so as to form extensions F upon each sideof the plate F and projecting over it, so that any ashes falling from agrate will be caught upon these extensions and prevented from cloggingthe grooves or channels in which the plate F slides.

Under ordinary conditions of use the sliding gate F will be closed andthe pan will be complete, with its four sides adapted to receive theashes from the grate and to be removed from time to time, as required.

Whenever it is desired to clean the space beneath the oven, the gate Eis removed, leaving the space 0 at the rear of the pan open, and thedoor to the space beneath the oven being also removed, the pan is thenintroduced to its place and the deposit beneath the oven is rakedforward into the pan, being prevented from passing beneath the latter bythe downwardly-turned projecting edge at the rear, and when the deposithas been removed into the pan the latter may be taken out and emptiedwithout anything passing into the ash-pit in the place where the panordinarily stands.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isy l. A combined ash and soot receiverconsisting of a pan adapted to fit into the ash-pit beneath the grate ofa stove and having a rear side adjacent to the chamber beneath the oven,made removable.

2. A combined ash and soot receiver consisting of a pan adapted to fitthe ash-pit beneath the grate of a stove or range having an open rearside and vertical guides, in combination with a sliding gate or doorfitting be.

tween said guides and adapted to close the rear side.

An ash and soot receiver consisting of a pan having an open rear side,and a vertically sliding gate adapted to close said side, said gatehaving transverse extensions across its top.

4. An ash and soot receiver consisting of a pan having an open rear end,guides upon the sides and top, and a sliding gate fitting said guidesand adapted to close the rear end, the rear end of the bottom of the panpro jeoting and turned downwardly as described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

HERRMAN N COLMAN.

\Vitnesses:

S. II. NoURsE, II. F. ASCHECK.

